[FLOW3-general] Total Newbie

[Robert Wildling]

Hi again,

While MacPorts is doing some work, I'd like to take the opportunity to 
chat a bit with you. Thanks about the exchange!

>> Unfortunately it still doesn't
>> run... but I know my way around now.
> Hm, that's a shame. Did you google for

I was never a big fan of XAMPP, not even back in the times when I was on 
Windows XP. So I will not go any further here.

>> (The install script requires a name, another name and a group. If I use
>> rowild _www _www, it actually changes the permission write to owner: _www,
>> group:_www; the first parameter, rowild, seems to be ignored. So I use
>> rowild rowild staff, which is standard for Mac permissions; but even rowild
>> rowild _www won't make it work under XAMPP. Anyway - as I said: you showed
>> me the way and that is invalueable help! Thanks again!)
> Actually, the first name should be your CLI user (rowild?) so that the
> init-script ("flow3") can do the stuff you want it to do. Second and
> third are the username and the corresponding usergroup the webserver
> belongs to (i thought they both were called "_www" but maybe i'm
> confusing something) so that the webserver may read and write stuff.
> But i'm not telling something new, am i?

No, actually I do understand you! But I didn't understand the 
setpermission.sh script and that the first position is for the CLI, so 
you definately switched on a light here!

> As a quick-and-dirty workaround, you could use "chmod -R 777
> <F3_PATH>" to continue with your main aim: Playing around with FLOW3.
> But keep in mind that it is a bullshitty way to configure a server!

NEVER! ;-)

>> Maybe you have a second and can clarify some things for me?
>> - XAMPP doesn't need to run, when the permisson file is called in Terminal,
>> does it?
> Don't know of a permission file.

Bad description on my side. I meant the setpermissions.ch file from 
FLOW3. This one is called via Terminal and just sets the chown and chmod 
for the various files, right? No need to have a server running at that 
time... right? Or wrong?

What d'you mean? Generally, the XAMPP
> stuff is just a facade for the infrastructure stuff (apache, mysql,
> ..) and starts/stops it in the configured way.
>
>> - Do you have the same experiences with MAMP? Or did you hear about similar
>> stuff with it? Google spits out quite a lot of problem discussions...
> Yeah i know it, but i kept in mind that its software is rather old and
> that it's shareware. Dunno, just try it out and stick to it if it fits
> your needs.

I use MAMP for all my TYPO3 projects and their local development (it's 
actually a free package collection, just the PRO version, which provides 
a nice GUI and DNS entries etc has a 14-day trial, but it can be 
installed seperately). It's quite up-to-date. Actually I like it a lot - 
but it's for those people who don't dig into the underlying. So when you 
mentioned before "concerning missing multibyte
support" I knew again that I am just on the surface of the php world... 
and MAMP maybe wouldn't do it...

>> Now, I will dig into macports...
> I won't discourage this since you learn a lot and have the ultimate
> freedom for your webserver configuration but it really is the hard way
> and i mainly took it because it was annoying to automatically spawn
> new vhosts with it and because of some other reasons. Keep in mind
> that you initially wanted to try out FLOW3, so don't fight too many
> battles at once. I'm speaking by experience. :)

Thank you! :-)

I followed these instructions here:
http://flow3.typo3.org/documentation/manuals/flow3/flow3.installingphp53/#flow3.installingphp53.mac

Everything works fine. I also changed the path to the Root Folder in the 
httpd to /FLOW3/Web.
The info.php, which echos a phpinfo(), works fine from this location. 
But calling the index.php, which is put there by FLOW3, spits out these 
errors:


Warning: Unknown: failed to open stream: Permission denied in Unknown on 
line 0

Fatal error: Unknown: Failed opening required '/FLOW3/Web/index.php' 
(include_path='.:/opt/local/lib/php') in Unknown on line 0


I didn't google yet, I will do so tomorrow.

Thanks again for your help and support! And thanks for reading till here 
- even though I actually do not have a question :-)

Good night!
Regards,
Robert